issue

Definition of issue

Nouns

an important question that is in dispute and must be settled

"the issue could be settled by requiring public education for everyone"

"politicians never discuss the real issues"

Types:: show 4 types...; hide 4 types...; gut issue, hot-button issue
an issue that elicits strong emotional reactions; paramount issue
an issue whose settlement is more important than anything else; and issue that must be settled before anything else can be settled; bread-and-butter issue, pocketbook issue
an issue whose settlement will affect financial resources; quodlibet
an issue that is presented for formal disputation

Type of:: cognitive content, content, mental object
the sum or range of what has been perceived, discovered, or learned

one of a series published periodically

"she found an old issue of the magazine in her dentist's waiting room"

Synonyms:: number

Types:: edition
an issue of a newspaper; extra
an additional edition of a newspaper (usually to report a crisis)

Type of:: periodical
a publication that appears at fixed intervals

some situation or event that is thought about

Synonyms:: matter, subject, topic

Types:: show 6 types...; hide 6 types...; area
a subject of study; gray area, grey area
an intermediate area; a topic that is not clearly one thing or the other; territory
an area of knowledge or interest; blind spot
a subject about which you are ignorant or prejudiced and fail to exercise good judgment; remit
the topic that a person, committee, or piece of research is expected to deal with or has authority to deal with; res adjudicata, res judicata
a matter already settled in court; cannot be raised again

Type of:: cognitive content, content, mental object
the sum or range of what has been perceived, discovered, or learned

the act of providing an item for general use or for official purposes (usually in quantity)

"a new issue of stamps"

"the last issue of penicillin was over a month ago"

Synonyms:: issuance, issuing

Types:: stock issue
(corporation law) the authorization and delivery of shares of stock for sale to the public or the shares thus offered at a particular time

Type of:: provision, supply, supplying
the activity of supplying or providing something

supplies (as food or clothing or ammunition) issued by the government

Synonyms:: government issue, military issue

Type of:: fund, stock, store
a supply of something available for future use

the income or profit arising from such transactions as the sale of land or other property

Synonyms:: payoff, proceeds, return, take, takings, yield

Types:: economic rent, rent
the return derived from cultivated land in excess of that derived from the poorest land cultivated under similar conditions; payback
financial return or reward (especially returns equal to the initial investment)

Type of:: income
the financial gain (earned or unearned) accruing over a given period of time

a phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon

Synonyms:: consequence, effect, event, outcome, result, upshot

Types:: show 30 types...; hide 30 types...; materialisation, materialization, offspring
something that comes into existence as a result; aftereffect
any result that follows its cause after an interval; aftermath, backwash, wake
the consequences of an event (especially a catastrophic event); bandwagon effect
the phenomenon of a popular trend attracting even greater popularity; brisance
the shattering or crushing effect of a sudden release of energy as in an explosion; butterfly effect
the phenomenon whereby a small change at one place in a complex system can have large effects elsewhere, e.g., a butterfly flapping its wings in Rio de Janeiro might change the weather in Chicago; by-product, byproduct
a secondary and sometimes unexpected consequence; epiphenomenon
a secondary phenomenon that is a by-product of another phenomenon; change
the result of alteration or modification; depolarisation, depolarization
a loss of polarity or polarization; coattails effect
(politics) the consequence of one popular candidate in an election drawing votes for other members of the same political party; Coriolis effect
(physics) an effect whereby a body moving in a rotating frame of reference experiences the Coriolis force acting perpendicular to the direction of motion and to the axis of rotation; on Earth the Coriolis effect deflects moving bodies to the right in the northern hemisphere and to the left in the southern hemisphere; dent
an appreciable consequence (especially a lessening); domino effect
the consequence of one event setting off a chain of similar events (like a falling domino causing a whole row of upended dominos to fall); harvest
the consequence of an effort or activity; impact, wallop
a forceful consequence; a strong effect; influence
the effect of one thing (or person) on another; perturbation
(physics) a secondary influence on a system that causes it to deviate slightly; purchase
a means of exerting influence or gaining advantage; wind
a tendency or force that influences events; knock-on effect
a secondary or incidental effect; branch, offset, offshoot, outgrowth
a natural consequence of development; product
a consequence of someone's efforts or of a particular set of circumstances; placebo effect
any effect that seems to be a consequence of administering a placebo; the change is usually beneficial and is assumed result from the person's faith in the treatment or preconceptions about what the experimental drug was supposed to do; pharmacologists were the first to talk about placebo effects but now the idea has been generalized to many situations having nothing to do with drugs; position effect
(genetics) the effect on the expression of a gene that is produced by changing its location in a chromosome; repercussion, reverberation
a remote or indirect consequence of some action; response
a result; reaction
a response that reveals a person's feelings or attitude; fallout, side effect
any adverse and unwanted secondary effect; spillover
(economics) any indirect effect of public expenditure

Type of:: phenomenon
any state or process known through the senses rather than by intuition or reasoning

the immediate descendants of a person

"he died without issue"

Synonyms:: offspring, progeny

Examples:: Esau
(Old Testament) the eldest son of Isaac who would have inherited the covenant that God made with Abraham and that Abraham passed on to Isaac; he traded his birthright to his twin brother Jacob for a mess of pottage

Types:: show 14 types...; hide 14 types...; baby
the youngest member of a group (not necessarily young); bastard, by-blow, illegitimate, illegitimate child, love child, whoreson
the illegitimate offspring of unmarried parents; child, kid
a human offspring (son or daughter) of any age; army brat
the child of a career officer of the United States Army; babe, baby, infant
a very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk; female offspring
a child who is female; male offspring, man-child
a child who is male; stepchild
a child of your spouse by a former marriage; eldest, firstborn
the offspring who came first in the order of birth; grandchild
a child of your son or daughter; granddaughter
a female grandchild; grandson
a male grandchild; great grandchild
a child of your grandson or granddaughter; heir, successor
a person who inherits some title or office

Type of:: relation, relative
a person related by blood or marriage

the becoming visible

Synonyms:: egress, emergence

Types:: eruption
the emergence of a tooth as it breaks through the gum; dissilience
the emergence of seeds as seed pods burst open when they are ripe

Type of:: beginning
the event consisting of the start of something

an opening that permits escape or release

"the canyon had only one issue"

Synonyms:: exit, outlet, way out

Types:: outfall
the outlet of a river or drain or other source of water

Type of:: opening
a vacant or unobstructed space that is man-made

the act of issuing printed materials

Synonyms:: publication

Type of:: printing
the business of producing printed material for sale or distribution

Verbs

prepare and issue for public distribution or sale

Synonyms:: bring out, publish, put out, release

Types:: edit
supervise the publication of

Type of:: air, bare, publicise, publicize
make public

circulate or distribute or equip with

"issue a new uniform to the children"

Synonyms:: supply

Antonyms:: recall
make unavailable; bar from sale or distribution

Types:: show 4 types...; hide 4 types...; free, release, unblock, unfreeze
make (assets) available; reissue
issue (a new version of); free, release
make (information) available for publication; declassify
lift the restriction on and make available again

Type of:: distribute
make available

bring out an official document (such as a warrant)

Type of:: communicate, intercommunicate
transmit thoughts or feelings

come out of

"Water issued from the hole in the wall"

Synonyms:: come forth, come out, egress, emerge, go forth

Types:: show 7 types...; hide 7 types...; pop out
come out suddenly or forcefully; radiate
issue or emerge in rays or waves; leak
enter or escape as through a hole or crack or fissure; escape
issue or leak, as from a small opening; fall
come out; issue; debouch
pass out or emerge; especially of rivers; come out, fall out
come off

make out and issue

Synonyms:: cut, make out, write out

Types:: check
write out a check on a bank account

Type of:: write
communicate or express by writing

Vocabulary Lists for issue

newspeak
prole
Big Brother
labour camp
doublethink

gateleg table
labour camp
Eurasia
prole
newspeak

suppliant
adjure
woe
slay
suborn

Macbeth
thane
weird sister
hautboy
Duncan

hierarchical
niggle
expropriate
saccharine
alterable

angel dust
renege
boll
cotton gin
Easter Day

abbreviate
catharsis
unconstrained
devastate
problematic

genealogy
Plantagenet line
ancestry
stemma
Esq

aficionado
arch
artful
artless
bemused

analysis
approach
area
assessment
assume

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Vocabulary Lists for issue

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